Epoch Investment Partners Inc. grew its position in shares of Liberty Global PLC Class A (NASDAQ:LBTYA) by 1.1% during the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 2,946,065 shares of the company’s s

Loxo Oncology (NASDAQ:LOXO) is scheduled to be announcing its earnings results before the market opens on Thursday, August 9th. Analysts expect the company to announce earnings of ($0.54) per share for the quarter.

Loxo Oncology (NASDAQ:LOXO) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday,

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Organovo Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONVO) shares saw a handy gain on Tuesday after the bio-printer announced that it received a strong consumer response from its second tissue service. Specifically, the ExVive Human Kidney Tissue launched in September, which uses Organovos 3D bio-printed kidney tissue to study the effects of drug exposure through toxicology panels and transporter studies.

The company already has multiple commercial orders from several customers, including with two global, top 25 pharmaceutical companies.

For some background: Organovo designs and creates functional, three-dimensional human tissues for use in medical research and therapeutic applications. The company develops 3D human tissue models through internal development and in collaboration with pharmaceutical, academic and other partners. Organovo’s 3D human tissues have the potential to accelerate the drug discovery process, enabling treatments to be developed faster and at lower cost.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: Xerium Technologies Inc.(XRM)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By kiplinger]

52-week high: $18.93

52-week low: $11.01

Annual revenues: $492.9 million

Xerium Technologies (XRM), a manufacturer of products used in papermaking, is a favorite of micro-cap expert Dan Abramowitz, who heads Hillson Financial Management, in Rockville, Md. Abramowitz calls the company “a turnaround story that is now at an inflection point.” Changes that a new management team put into effect in 2012 should start bearing fruit. The stock’s price-earnings ratio is a mere 7, based on the average of analysts’ earnings estimates for 2016.

Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI) sunk to the bottom of the S&P 500–narrowly beating out Apartment Investment and Management (AIV)–as the parent company of the Food Network and other channels gave back a chunk of its post-elections gains.

[By Ben Levisohn]

Apartment Investment & Management (AIV) tumbled today, as the weakness in real-estate investment trusts following Donald Trump’s surprise election continued today. It was the second-biggest loser in the S&P 500 today.

In a note released yesterday, Raymond James analyst Buck Horne and team cut their price target on Apartment Investment & Management to $50 from $50, even as they maintained their Strong Buy rating. They explain why:

Apartment Investment & Management reported net income of $67 million on sales of $978 million in 2015.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: region(DGLD)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Jim Robertson]

The VelocityShares 3x Inverse Gold ETN (NASDAQ: DGLD) seeks to provideshort exposure to three times (3x) the daily performance of theS&P GSCI Gold Index. As with UGLD, DGLD would be doing this viafutures contracts.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: Golden Star Resources Ltd(GSS)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Cameron Saucier]

Golden Star (NYSEMKT: GSS) is a gold mining and exploration company, and operates gold mines in Ghana, West Africa. GSS is up 396% YTD after it announced in July that it had begun pre-commercial production of gold in an underground mine in Ghana. GSS is trading at $0.825 per share on Monday intraday.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: Clean Diesel Technologies Inc.(CDTI)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Monica Gerson]

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDTI) is projected to post a quarterly loss at $0.18 per share on revenue of $10.25 million.

Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ: ANY) is estimated to post a quarterly loss at $0.11 per share on revenue of $22.10 million.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: AltaGas Ltd. (ATGFF)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

AltaGas (OTCPK:ATGFF) recently announced that it’s going to acquire WGL Holdings (NYSE:WGL). This article will examine the financial side of the transaction. A number of Seeking Alpha authors have written articles on the merger as well, and I suggest that you read them.

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

Regulators in California are behind a new business of providing utility-scale back-up battery storage at power generating facilities. Canadian-based AltaGas (OTCPK:ATGFF) recently announced a 10-year Energy Storage Resource Adequacy Purchase Agreement with Southern California Edison SCE, a subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE:EIX). A recap of the scope of the contract is described below, from ATGFF’s press release:

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: YPF Sociedad Anonima(YPF)

These are the top 5 holdings of Knighthead Capital Management, LLCSPDR S&P 500 (SPY) – 1,500,000 shares, 57.03% of the total portfolio. Spirit Realty Capital Inc (SRC) – 9,113,000 shares, 11.82% of the total portfolio. New PositionYPF SA (YPF) – 2,153,795 shares, 7.26% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.5%TerraForm Global Inc (GLBL) – 9,200,000 shares, 6.61% of the total portfolio. EQT Corp (EQT) – 597,300 shares, 5.9% of the total p

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: Clarke(t)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By JJ Kinahan]

Shares of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) were moderately lower while shares of Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) headed to the upside in early trading today. Late yesterday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) surprised market observers by filing an antitrust lawsuit to block T’s $85.4 billion takeover of TWX. In the complaint, DoJ said the merger would harm competition, stifle innovation and drive up prices.

[By Laurie Kulikowski]

Net operating cash flow has increased to $10,797.00 million or 23.76% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, AT&T INC has also modestly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 16.21%.

The gross profit margin for AT&T INC is rather high; currently it is at 55.43%. Regardless of T’s high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 7.65% trails the industry average.

[By Chris Lange]

24/7 Wall St. took a peek at plans from Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S). We have also provided some of the key highlights from each plan. In a separate post we looked at which companies offer the best service.

[By WWW.MONEYSHOW.COM]

With a dividend yield of 4.8%, AT&T (T) will continue to be an attractive income investment whether or not the merger with Time Warner (TWX) happens. AT&T recently completed other deals that have increased earnings and strengthened dividend safety.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: New Residential Investment Corp.(NRZ)

Advisors’ Opinion:

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New Residential (NYSE: NRZ) is a U.S.-based REIT that specializes in managing investments in residential real estate. With a market cap of $5.5 billion, NRZ is one of the largest REITs in the United States, so this is no fly-by-night company. NRZ offers one of the best dividends in the industry. The trust made four dividend payments in 2017 totaling $1.94. That gives shares a current yield of 11.3%, more than a 400% premium to the S&P 500’s average 2.0% yield.

[By Lisa Levin]

Ocwen Financial Corp (NYSE: OCN) shares were also up, gaining 42 percent to $3.25. New Residential Investment Corp (NYSE: NRZ) revealed it owned some servicing rights to the troubled Ocwen Financial. During today's conference call, New Residential’s executive suggested the company will pay $425 million for Mortgage Servicing Rights to Ocwen.

[By Sean Williams]

Today’s lawsuit has spilled over to the company’s peers as well. New Residential Investment Corp. (NYSE:NRZ), which invests in excess mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), wound up falling as much as 13% during the day’s trading session. Ocwen is one of the three companies mentioned as being one of the primary servicers in New Residential Investment’s MSRs, according to its 10-K. If mortgage owners or bondholders terminate Ocwen as the servicer, the excess MSRs tied to Ocwen could lose some or all of their value.Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A.(NASDAQ: ASPS)fell 42%.

[By Chris Dier-Scalise]

Thge Vetr crowd upgraded its rating for New Residential Investment Corp (NYSE: NRZ) on Friday from the company's previous standing at 3 stars (Hold), issued 10 days ago, to 4 stars (Buy). Crowd sentiment at the time of the upgrade was mostly positive, with 80 percent of Vetr user ratings bullish.

Top 10 Medical Stocks For 2018: Cardiome Pharma Corporation(CRME)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Lisa Levin]

Shares of CARDIOME PHARMA CORP (NASDAQ: CRME) were down 43 percent to $3.01. Cardiome priced 10 million shares at $3 per share.

Seadrill Partners LLC (NYSE: SDLP) was down, falling around 30 percent to $4.09 as the company announced plans to reduce the quarterly cash distribution to $0.10 per unit from $0.25 per unit.

[By Lisa Levin]

Shares of CARDIOME PHARMA CORP (NASDAQ: CRME) were down 30 percent to $2.72 after the company issued U.S. regulatory update for BRINAVESS. The FDA advised Cardiome that the data package proposed is not sufficient to support re-submission of the BRINAVESS NDA.

In the past 72 hours, U.S. political convention has been turned on its ear, with Donald Trump scoring a historic presidential victory over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Check out: Anti-Trump protests fill streets for second straight night

But regardless of your political persuasion, the election highlights the fact that this democracy is defended by a few proud, brave men and women across the country, and Friday is one day (but far from the only) that citizens can show appreciation: Veterans Day.

Basic materials shares rose by 0.74 percent in the US market on Friday. Top gainers in the sector included AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS), Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE: CLF), and United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X).

[By Lisa Levin]

Basic materials sector was the top gainer in the US market on Monday. Top gainers in the sector included Haynes International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAYN), Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE: CLF), and Olympic Steel, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZEUS).

stock market holidays: Enbridge Inc(ENB)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Matthew DiLallo]

Not to be outdone, rival Canadian oil pipeline giant Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) announced a transformational gas-focused deal of its own, agreeing to acquire U.S. pipeline company Spectra Energy (NYSE:SE) for $28 billion. That transaction will catapult Enbridge past TransCanada and create the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. Further, the deal will bolster Enbridge’s near-term capital project backlog to $20 billion, while enhancing its inventory of longer-term investment opportunities to $37 billion. This pipeline supports Enbridge’s view that it can increase its dividend by 10% to 12% annually through 2024.

stock market holidays: YPF Sociedad Anonima(YPF)

These are the top 5 holdings of Knighthead Capital Management, LLCSPDR S&P 500 (SPY) – 1,500,000 shares, 57.03% of the total portfolio. Spirit Realty Capital Inc (SRC) – 9,113,000 shares, 11.82% of the total portfolio. New PositionYPF SA (YPF) – 2,153,795 shares, 7.26% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.5%TerraForm Global Inc (GLBL) – 9,200,000 shares, 6.61% of the total portfolio. EQT Corp (EQT) – 597,300 shares, 5.9% of the total p

stock market holidays: Paragon Offshore plc (PGNPQ)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

With even brand new rigs struggling to find work, the jig was soon up for owners of old equipment, like Paragon Offshore (OTCPK:PGNPQ), which is currently undergoing its second debt restructuring in less than three years of independent existence. Likewise, drillers with a fondness for aggressive use of debt were soon in trouble, most notably, former high-flier Seadrill (SDRL) and its little brother North Atlantic Drilling (NADL), which will no doubt file for restructuring within months. As a consequence of the crisis, the OSD industry now has a number of participants without a large debt burden, either new entrants like Borr Drilling, or established competitors that have had debt reduced in a restructuring, such as Ocean Rig (ORIG), to be followed within this year by others, almost certainly including each of SDRL, NADL, and Pacific Drilling (PACD).

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

Paragon Offshore’s (OTCPK:PGNPQ) former management’s audacious efforts to omit parts of the senior secured lenders by deeming them unimpaired and instead pay out the majority of the company’s cash to junior unsecured bondholders by presenting a set of entirely unrealistic business forecasts to the court. Fortunately, in case of Paragon Offshore, the bankruptcy judge recognized the framing and accordingly denied confirmation of the company’s plan of reorganization, effectively sending Paragon Offshore back to the drawing board. Consequently, management was ousted after the failure. I have covered the Paragon Offshore saga in a series of articles over the past few quarters, so interested investors might want to take a look at this highly fascinating and still evolving case study.

stock market holidays: Werner Enterprises, Inc.(WERN)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Jake L’Ecuyer]

Equities Trading DOWN Shares of Outerwall (NASDAQ: OUTR) were down 16.03 percent to $47.00 after the company lowered its forecast for the third quarter and full year. Werner Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN) shares tumbled 4.71 percent to $23.26 after the company issued a weak third-quarter profit forecast. Bank of America downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral. Pandora Media (NYSE: P) down, falling 1.71 percent to $23.58 as the company announced its plans to sell 14 million shares of common stock, including 4 million shares from current stockholders.

Financial markets have fallen sharply in response to Donald Trumps election as the 45th President of the United States. Equity markets are down notably in Asian and early European trading. Gold has, by contrast, increased, outperforming other assets, including other safe havens. It is currently trading at over US$1,300/oz, compared with US$1,275/oz before the vote counting began.

Short term volatility in the wake of this election is inevitable, as it signals a major political and economic change. Gold trading volumes have risen sharply in Asia. Western markets, which have just opened, will likely see a continuation of that trend.

We are seeing increasingly fractious politics across the advanced economies, and this trend, combined with uncertainty over the aftermath of years of unconventional monetary policies measures, will firmly underpin investment demand for gold in the coming years.

Gold’s highand low for the 52-week week period are $1,384and $1,053, respectively.

chinese stock market: Citi Trends, Inc.(CTRN)

Shares of Internap Corp (NASDAQ: INAP) got a boost, shooting up 13 percent to $2.97 on strong quarterly results. Stifel Nicolaus upgraded Internap from Hold to Buy and raised the price target from $2.00 to $5.50.

chinese stock market: Identiv, Inc.(INVE)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Lisa Levin]

The industries that are driving the market today are:

Cement: This industry gained 3.4 percent by 2:30 pm. The top stock within the industry was Cemex SAB de CV (ADR) (NYSE: CX), which gained 4.7 percent. Cemex’s PEG ratio is 0.16.
Computer Peripherals: This industry rose 2.6 percent by 2:30 pm ET. The top performer in this industry was Identiv Inc (NASDAQ: INVE), which gained 13.5 percent. Identiv shares have climbed 44.83 percent over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has increased 8.61 percent in the same period.
Internet Service Providers: The industry gained 2 percent by 2:30 pm. The top performer in this industry was TrueCar Inc (NASDAQ: TRUE) which gained 3.4 percent. TrueCar shares have jumped 60.90 percent over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has increased 8.61 percent in the same period.
Regional – Southwest Banks: This industry moved up 1.9 percent by 2:30 pm. The top performer in this industry was Veritex Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: VBTX), which rose 6.6 percent

chinese stock market: Arista Networks, Inc.(ANET)

It was founded by one of Silicon Valley’s top technologists of the past 35 years.

[By Billy Duberstein]

Furthermore, if the company were thinking along these lines it would be due to competitive pressures. For years, Cisco’s switching software was only available on its own high-margin hardware; however, the data center switching industry is changing, as competitors like Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) are winning market share by offering low-cost switches with high functionality. In the past year or two, though, an even greater threat to the industry has emerged, as smaller networking companies started selling stand-alone software that could be run on low-end “whitebox” switches made by low-cost Asian vendors.

[By Lisa Levin]

Shares of Arista Networks Inc (NYSE: ANET) got a boost, shooting up 17 percent to $117.47 after the company reported better-than-expected results for its fourth quarter and issued a strong outlook for the current quarter.

[By Simon Erickson]

Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) founder/Chairman Andy Bechtolsheim became a Silicon Valley legend after being one of the first investors in the company now called Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), cutting the company a $100,000 check in 1998 before it had even formally selected a name (he confirmed this investment has personally netted him more than $1 billion).

Arista’s customer count has increased sixfold during the past four years (from 570 in 2011 to more than 3,500 today) and their market share in high-speed data center switching has increased from 3% to 12% during the same time frame. Bechtolsheim owns 19% of Arista’s shares, with insiders collectively owning more than 44%. Due to massive amounts of data being transferred across the Internet (thanks to high-definition video, genomic sequencing, and a ton of other formats), investment in cloud-computing infrastructure is estimated to grow from $32.6 billion in 2015 to $53.1 billion by 2019.

[By WWW.MONEYSHOW.COM]

My Top Pick for growth investors in 2017 is Arista Networks (ANET), which in many ways looks like the next Cisco (CSCO) — the company was built from the ground up to deal with the realities of the new networking paradigm.

Cultivating Marijuana or Cannabis as the next multibillion dollar industryhas garnered considerable attention, but small cap Algae Dynamics Corp (OTCQB: ADYNF) is commercializing contaminant-free algae. On the surface, that may not sound so exciting as algae isusuallyconsideredan unwanted side effect ofstagnant water or a toxin (e.g. an algae bloom)that damages some forms of sea life.

However, algae is also increasingly being usedin a number of industries to commercially produce useful end products. These products include food, pharmaceuticals and medicines, animal feed, fertilizer and fuel.

BioSilo does this by combiningthe positive features of open pond systems with those of enclosed photobioreactor algae production systems. This system produces a continuous supply of ultra-pure algae biomass in high volumes. The design’s small footprint and scalability also results in very low maintenance costs.

Top 5 Heal Care Stocks To Own For 2018: Panasonic Corporation (PCRFY)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Ben Levisohn]

During the early stages of a new innovation, interdependent architectures and integrated companies best optimize performance and functionality. This trend has played out in computing and handsets, and we see the same trend playing out in EVs. We find Tesla and BYD1 , by far, the most vertically integrated players in EVs, with huge scale advantages. In addition, LG Chem, Panasonic (PCRFY), Samsung SDI, BYD, and CATL are clear scale leaders in batteries (CATL is not publicly traded. All but Samsung SDI and BYD are not covered by Bernstein.).

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

SMMYY is a subsidiary of the Sumitomo Group. SMMYY is a major smelter and refiner of copper, nickel and gold in Japan, and has a 27.5% stake in the Ambatovy Nickel Project in Madagascar, along with Sherritt International and Korea Resources Corp. Feedstock for the refinery is nickel cobalt mixed sulphide from its Taganito and Coral Bay mines in the Philippines (noting the Philippines is a risky supply source at this time). Sumitomo supply Panasonic (OTCPK:PCRFY) who supply Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA); however, this can change. Generally, I like the stock; however, at this time, valuation looks full, trading on a 2017 PE of 32.8, and 2018 PE of 14.8. Good to buy after a pullback if that occurs.

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

Clean Technica reported on September 1 that “Sony is entering the EV battery manufacturing industry”. And “considering that electric vehicle batteries are going to be the main supply bottleneck for the upcoming auto market’s embrace of EVs, the entry of Sony into the field is very notable. Most of the other manufacturers (Panasonic (OTCPK:PCRFY), LG Chem (OTC:LGCLF), etc.) already have more or less all of their production capacity locked up for the coming years – meaning there’s not much left for the auto manufacturers that are running behind, thereby limiting potential EV sales for the firms in question. Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) entry into the field should open things up a bit more”. Certainly a good move by Sony and helpful for the EV companies that will find themselves in need of batteries, and limited availability, should EVs reach 10% by 2020.

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

A Unilever vs. Panasonic (OTCPK:PCRFY) showdown seems to be something out of an alternative, weird universe. But that’s exactly what has been happening in the Asia-Pacific region, where Unilever is now a major seller of air and water purification devices. The acquisitions of Qinyuan and Pureit water purifiers, as well as the acquisition of Sweden-based Blueair in 2016, reflects Unilever’s latest growth strategy of reducing exposure to low-growth brands in favor of greater investments in higher-growth products with strong social and environmental credentials.

Top 5 Heal Care Stocks To Own For 2018: YPF Sociedad Anonima(YPF)

These are the top 5 holdings of Knighthead Capital Management, LLCSPDR S&P 500 (SPY) – 1,500,000 shares, 57.03% of the total portfolio. Spirit Realty Capital Inc (SRC) – 9,113,000 shares, 11.82% of the total portfolio. New PositionYPF SA (YPF) – 2,153,795 shares, 7.26% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.5%TerraForm Global Inc (GLBL) – 9,200,000 shares, 6.61% of the total portfolio. EQT Corp (EQT) – 597,300 shares, 5.9% of the total p

Top 5 Heal Care Stocks To Own For 2018: Endologix, Inc.(ELGX)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Paul Ausick]

Endologix Inc. (NASDAQ: ELGX) dropped about 9.3% on Wednesday to post a new 52-week low of $4.78 against a 52-week high of $14.50 and a Tuesday close of $5.27. Volume of about 6 million was more than 3 times the daily average of around 1.7 million. The company on Tuesday announced a temporary shipping hold on its best-selling heart device, saying there was a manufacturing issue.

[By Lisa Levin]

Endologix, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELGX) shares dropped 23 percent to $7.59 as the company issued an update on Nellix PMA process. Endologix disclosed that the FDA has requested the company to provide a two-year patient follow-up data from the EVAS-FORWARD IDE study of Nellix System.

Top 5 Heal Care Stocks To Own For 2018: Endeavour Silver Corporation(EXK)

Tuesday afternoon, the basic materials sector proved to be a source of strength for the market. Leading the sector was strength from Endeavour Silver Corp (NYSE: EXK) and DRDGOLD Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE: DRD).

Top 5 Heal Care Stocks To Own For 2018: lululemon athletica inc.(LULU)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Jon C. Ogg]

When companies raise guidance, or at least when they lift the lower-end of their prior targets, investors usually cheer. But in the case of Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) there is of course a high-valuation bar that has to be considered. Lululemon narrowed its guidance to the upper-end of prior ranges, but the shares hardly budged on Monday despite having a full trading day to absorb the news.

[By Chris Lange]

Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) reported its most recently quarterly earnings after markets closed on Wednesday. The company posted $0.99 in earnings per share (EPS) and $789.9 million in revenue, versus consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters that called for $1.01 in EPS and $783.56 million in revenue. The fiscal fourth quarter from last year had $0.85 in EPS and $704.28 million in revenue.

[By Ben Levisohn]

Shares of Lululemon Athletica (LULU) are tumbling in after-hours trading today after the yoga-wear company missed fourth-quarter earnings estimates and offering disappointing guidance.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Lululemon reported a profit of $1.00 a share, missing forecasts for $1.01 a share, on sales of $789.9 million, which topped the Street consensus for $783.4 million. Lululemon said it would earning between 25 cents and 27 cents during the first quarter, below forecasts for 39 cents, and between $2.26 and $2.36 in 2017, below expectations for $2.56.

Shares of Lululemon have tumbled 18% to $54.21 at 5:06 p.m. in after-hours trading today, after gaining 4.1% during regular market hours. Kudos to Macquaries Laurent Vasilescu, who offered 10 reasons to worry about Lululemon on Monday.

[By Lisa Levin]

Shares of Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) got a boost, shooting up 15 percent to $68.99 after the company reported stronger-than-expected earnings for its third quarter and announced a $100 million stock buyback plan.

[By Peter Graham]

Athletic apparel stock Lululemon Athletica inc (NASDAQ: LULU) reported Q2 2017 earnings after the Thursday market close with results toppingexpectations as online sales surged 30% after an effort to beef up the eCommerce strategy plus the Company raised its outlook. Net revenuegrew 13% to$581.1 millionas total comparable sales increased 7% and comparable store sales increased 2%, or increased by 2% on a constant dollar basis. Direct to consumer net revenue increased 29%, or increased 30% on a constant dollar basis. During the quarter the Company held an online warehouse sale. Excluding the impact of this sale, direct to consumer net revenue increased 15%, or increased 16% on a constant dollar basis. Net income was $48.711 million versus net income of $53.625 million. The Company ended the second quarter of fiscal 2017 with $721.2 million in cash and cash equivalents compared to $535.3 million at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2016. The CEO commented:

[By WWW.THESTREET.COM]

Lululemon will be on fire: Shares of yoga maker Lululemon (LULU) will likely be hot on Friday after a strong earnings beat. Not a totally clean quarter, but it did enough to shake out the growing chorus of haters…for now.

I’m seeing a yearning of many people around my age to return to a simpler time, like when we were growing up. My evidence: the hundreds of interviews I’ve done for Best Places in the World to Retire and the studies we did in which we asked expats about their lives abroad.

Interestingly, many Americans and Canadians have not only moved abroad partly to search for a life reminiscent of an earlier time, but quite a few tell me that they’ve found it — and in some very unlikely places, including Mexico, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua.

Credit: Shutterstock

Here’s what they told us:

Less Government Involvement

It may sound odd that the government in countries considered to be socialist would have less government involvement than in the U.S., but in the day-to-day lives of the locals, it’s true. Whether these governments would want to be more involved or not, they simply don’t have the resources to do so. That means locals find themselves doing some things that the federal and state governments often do in the United States.

bonds investment: Peugeot S.A. (PUGOY)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

Yes, you read that correct! General Motors (NYSE: GM) will probably not settle for just a new 52-week high and will aim to take out the 2013 peak of $41.85. With talks about the Opel sellout to PSA Group (OTCPK:PEUGF) (OTCPK:PUGOY) progressing at a rate much faster than I had anticipated, a (likely) deal announcement on Monday will pave the way for new all-time highs.

[By John Rosevear]

It’s official: General Motors (NYSE:GM) will sell its long-troubled Opel subsidiary to French automaker Peugeot S.A. (NASDAQOTH:PUGOY) for about $2.3 billion, in a deal expected to close later this year.

[By Adam Levine-Weinberg]

Now, the General is thinking about ditching Europe for good by selling its European operations to French automaker Peugeot (NASDAQOTH:PUGOY). As long as Peugeot is willing to pay a reasonable price, selling Opel is GM’s best course of action.

bonds investment: Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.(RIGL)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Lisa Levin]

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIGL) shares dropped 22 percent to $2.52 after the company reported results from the second FIT Phase 3 study for fostamatinib. The company disclosed that the study did not meet primary endpoint.

bonds investment: YPF Sociedad Anonima(YPF)

These are the top 5 holdings of Knighthead Capital Management, LLCSPDR S&P 500 (SPY) – 1,500,000 shares, 57.03% of the total portfolio. Spirit Realty Capital Inc (SRC) – 9,113,000 shares, 11.82% of the total portfolio. New PositionYPF SA (YPF) – 2,153,795 shares, 7.26% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 1.5%TerraForm Global Inc (GLBL) – 9,200,000 shares, 6.61% of the total portfolio. EQT Corp (EQT) – 597,300 shares, 5.9% of the total p

bonds investment: Nabors Industries Ltd.(NBR)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Wayne Duggan]

While Loop maintains a Buy rating on all of the stocks mentioned above, Guggenheim analyst Michael LaMotte isn’t quite so bullish on the sector. Earlier this week, LaMotte downgraded the following oil services stocks from Buy to Neutral:

On CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report", Jon Najarian spoke about Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR). He said that somebody bought 6,500 contracts of the July 11 calls for $0.50 in the first half of the session. The trade breaks even at $11.50 or 16.28 percent above the current market price. Jon Najarian has a long position in the name and he is planning to hold it for a month.

[By Craig Jones]

Pete Najarian was watching Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR). He said that the stock has been trading in a range between $8 and $18 over the last 52 weeks and although it spiked 2.82 percent on Wednesday, it's still close to the lower end of the range. Anticipating a move higher, traders were buying the June 11 calls for $0.30. Around 6,000 contracts were bought in the first half of the session. The trade breaks even at $11.30 or 10.78 percent above the current market price. Pete Najarian decided to buy the calls and he is going to hold them for 4-5 weeks.

[By Ben Levisohn]

Last night, Weatherford International (WFT) reported a smaller than expected loss and announcing an alliance with Nabors Industries (NBR)–and the news was celebrated by the market.

[By Jon C. Ogg]

Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) rose by 22.3% to $16.11 on Wednesday. Its volume of 17.4 million shares was about 2.5 times normal trading volume. Nabors has a consensus analyst price target of $15.04 and a 52-week trading range of $4.93 to $16.50. The company has a total market cap of $4.6 billion.

bonds investment: Profire Energy, Inc.(PFIE)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Monica Gerson]

Profire Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFIE) is estimated to post its quarterly earnings at $0.00 per share on revenue of $6.74 million.

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bonds investment: Nabriva Therapeutics AG(NBRV)

Advisors’ Opinion:

[By Lisa Levin]

Shares of Nabriva Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: NBRV) got a boost, shooting up 10 percent to $9.71. Nabriva Therapeutics announced a $80 million common stock offering.

[By Lisa Levin]

Nabriva Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ: NBRV) shares shot up 37 percent to $9.38 after the company disclosed that its Phase 3 trial evaluating IV and oral lefamulin met all primary FDA and EMA endpoints.

QCI Asset Management Inc. NY lifted its stake in Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) (TSE:ENB) by 60.2% during the first quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 598,684 shares of the pipeline company’s stock after acquiring an additional

One of the nation's best-known toolmakers, Stanley Black & Decker, said Thursday that it will move more manufacturing back to the U.S. from overseas, including construction of a new $35 million factory after acquiring the Craftsmanbrand from ailing retailer Sears Holdings.

Oil prices have improved dramatically over the past year as OPEC's move to drain off the supply glut proved more successful than envisioned. That rising tide has lifted most oil stocks. However, that doesn't mean investors have missed the boat, since many oil stocks still have ample upside. Two t

Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) shares gapped up prior to trading on Thursday . The stock had previously closed at $47.57, but opened at $48.58. Applied Materials shares last traded at $48.99, with a volume of 13207686 shares changing hands.